I want to thank Bioware for creating this series. I never played a better series of games than Mass
Effect. My English is not the best (please bear with me) but I'll try to explain my story
here:
Like I said, I recently finished Mass Effect 3... and I'm very confused since that day. My emotions for Mass Effect
range from love to disappointment.
First of all, I'm a big fan of good games. I played since I was a kid, starting with the SNES back then... and
since then there were only a few games which were able to create any kind of emotion which I would react to. The last game which made me shed a tear was MGS 3. I'd never thought that games would be able to do this. I'm not a very sensitive person at all... but oh man did I cry when (in my case) Tali and Sheppard expressed their love for each other at the end of ME3. I was just logy the next couple of days.
The characters and the whole ME setting... simply unbelievable. So, I started with ME about half a year ago. I enjoyed the first 10-15 hours but then I got bored or just forgot about it and didn't play it for a couple of months. Then my friend luckily gave me ME2 and ME3 as a birthday present. So I had a great incentive to finish ME1 in order to play the other ones. Finally, I finished ME1 and I couldn't wait for more Mass Effect.
The second one was partly better. I really enjoyed the story and the great characters! The new ones were very sympathetic and they didn't felt like „squad-fillers“ to me. Then the old squad-mates began to grow on me. Especially Tali as you can see. She was one of those characters who evolved more and more with every new ME. This is something you can't do with one game. While playing ME2 I understood that you can't play one ME-title and comment whether it is „good“ or not. You have to experience the series as a whole. There were also things I didn't like - the so-so level design, the boring shooting stages etc. But I'm not upset as long as the story and characters continue to be interesting.
My expectations were very high for ME3.bI already knew about the 3 endings and the whole discussion. I never cared about any Bioware game before that but even I read about a lot of angry ME-fans. Well, I thought that wouldn't be a big problem since I'm playing with the extended cut-patch. Bioware managed to create great shooting-mechanics – way better than everything from the previous titles. Even though I'd like to have more conversations than action-gameplay... but whatever. I already mentioned at the beginning how much the game affected me. I'm still stunned. In the end it's a video game... but it made me feel something which no movie, no game and no real life experience could ever do. I'm very thankful for that.
So I arrived at the final room to make my decision... I chose red. Destroy. The following scenes can just be described as extremely unsatisfying and disappointing. I knew there was the possiblity of Shepard to die (thanks to the spoilers years ago on every news site). So, I was pretty surprised when Shepard was alive (or at least breathing) in my ending... still, that wasn't what I wanted. I could understand if not every of my decisions would be noted... but the ending is as suggestive as the one of Inception. It's maybe even much worse. I wanted closure and all I received is the desire for another Mass Effect (4) with Shepard in it. Like what Hideo Kojima did with MGS 4 -> every unresolved issue, to explain everything! What will happen to Shepard and his LI? This is one of the most intense things I have ever experienced in my whole life and everything I get are a couple of remaining open questions and cutscenes. I expected more, a lot more.
I don't see myself buying ME4 without Shepard. It's like reading a book halfway through with the most memorable characters ever made and starting something completely new. Now. I wonder why? Why?
I dare to say something bad about
Bioware, because they are such talented develpers – but why? Your fans, Mass Effect and everyone who helped you to become the company you are right now desevere something better. The worst thing is that I sound like thousands of users before me. Nothing changed... it almost seems like Bioware are the reapers or at least indoctrinated. What a funny analogy. I want to thank Bioware but at the same time I simply can not believe to what an undeserving ending the trilogy came to.
And for the record... it was still totally worth it.
- Max
Greetings from Europe.
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